US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "3D lane and road boundary estimation via row-wise classification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,895, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"3D lane and road boundary estimation via row-wise classification" was invented by Behnaz Rezaei (San Diego) and Christopher Brunner (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for vehicle driving assistance systems that support image processing. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes receiving image data from an image sensor; extracting point features from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data; partitioning the point features; performing BEV-feature pooling based on the partitioned point feat...